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　　“I,-t i-s. a .film from .;a .n extended se,=ries(/..- It is har^?
d to say who ? is the@ ma in char?act.] er ?of “The
 ]Soviet Elegy.” Ther%_e:? ?are more t%han $a hund@+r`[ed faces of:( our c;=:ompatriots. But, of -cours,[e, it is not by ch(:ance that it is the de$stiny of a f+)+#-amou+)s political fi +gure, Bori$s Ni@?]kol`[.aye(%v%%^itch #$Yeltsin, that b;( ear/^s a sp:*]ecia +l accent in t;=he film.^+ Tho ?ugh he! ]\
got to power followin /g;@ quite typica?l w_[;ays, his +\uncommon character@^ p*(-uts him % .o! =ut of th:+=[e or  dinary(,.:!, a !nd i!:n the author’s opinion it ma
?:y ?!be de\termined by his unco;.mmon h_[uman nature  . Our hero exists /wi(thin == the ?\trag$#ic\. patte)!rn of t:]-he soviet,= socialist life[ . `He is a c hara-;c#[:t.?er of a drama, of ;whic=h h_e is one of the authors.%%%` “The^# Sovi*#et Eleg-y” can%# hardly be c=^alle .
d a do_cument@ary film in  the proper sense. O?`f course, -;the [-author :guaran tees_ the accuracy of chronology,,, but he ins is_^ /ts on^\,[ an+ artist[ic mo?! d[!e o*f thin;`%kin- g, not on a p$o`\!l*itica l or his,torical in-@(vestigation.”